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After reporting record high revenues in the third quarter, Lenovo is feeling a bit frisky.

“The most important strategy for Lenovo is to further explore mobile devices where Apple and Samsung dominate the market,” said Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo’s CEO in a story published by China Daily on Friday.

The company has already moved in the tablet space and while it may be a latecomer, Yang said that they plan to take on mobile powerhouses Apple (AAPL) and Samsung going forward, the China Daily reports.

According to industry research firm IDC, Lenovo is already the world’s third-largest maker of mobile devices, including tablets, laptops and smartphones. Lenovo doubled its smartphone sales in China in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, and its smartphone business is finally profitable.

Lenovo sold 9 million smartphones in China over the past three months, the company said this week.

Lenovo also claims to have a larger smartphone market share in China than ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co.

“Since Lenovo’s smartphone business is starting to become profitable, it is allowing the company to invest more in product development, marketing and building distribution channels, which are key for it to build a sustainable business in the global smartphone industry,” Wang Jingwen, an analyst at Canalys, told the paper.

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Lenovo wanted to see how the Z10 stacked up against IPhone and Android and now they know BlackBerry has a huge winner here. Look for them partner up and take over the smartphone arena now. Apple is in so much trouble today, 52 week lows for the rest of the year. Ouch. Way to go BlackBerry!!

This is an area I claim no expertise. Just reporting what I hear and read. And what I DO here is that BlackBerry as a product is in trouble cuz so many people are into the whole Apple or Android ecology now. I dont really care about the ecology. I have a BlackBerry, and I have a Samsung tablet that obviously runs Android. I can read my email on both. Tho the BB Curve I have sucks for online and apps. I can care less, really, about having Angry Birds to play, or Draw Something. But I understand that most people have smartphones and tablets for those kind of things. Maybe Im behind the curve on this. Everyone says the ecology (or whatever the industry word for that is) is everything and BB doesnt have it.

That is because you never touched BlackBerry Z10. You need to open your mind and jump out of your mind set. The all new Z10 is not the old BlackBerry. That QNX based system is the first time shown in consumer products.

Give it a try, you will know why your article and comments sound so naive. Lenovo is not stupid, so it will not touch Samsung who does not have its own close system. Samsung mobile’s success is based on pure operation exellence, not innovation. It is not any different than those 500 people ODMs who flush quick Andriod garbage to makets. The profit is very lean and short term. If the market share is not sustainable, Samsung mobile will not make any buck.

It interested to see Lenovo take on Samsung and Apple. Also I didn’t pick android just because of apps available in the Play Store, but the possibility to do anything computer-like on Android OS. Apple OS have restricted access which prevented users to do the possibility, same goes with the new Windows Phone. I’m into big specs and big phone, and it got to have Android. That why I aimed for Galaxy Note. Note 2 will be in my hand in a few week.

Also for Lenovo, I love how they make 27-inches table pc and I though it might be perfect for me to hang on my wall. If they make a 40 inches table pc, then I will use it as a tv (hopefully they have input, coaxial, etc) which equipped with Windows 8 so I can mount on the wall and to have a wireless mouse and keyboard…whoo!